AHOSKIE, N.C. (WAVY) — Amber Privott wants to know why and how her daughter Ivy, then 6, was locked in a room at her summer day camp for nearly three hours.

Ivy could be having the best day of her life — or the worst day — but never be able to tell you about it, as she has nonverbal autism.

Her mother enrolled her at the local Easterseals summer day camp, and said one day in early August, Ivy was locked in a closet.

The Hertford County Sheriff said, however, that "I don't see a crime here."

Meanwhile, the people who run the camp say it was an isolation room, and Ivy was never in any danger. But then again, they ended up firing the staff member responsible.

"She's my shadow, the love of my life," Privott said about her middle child. "Ivy is a bundle of joy and a bundle of energy."

She

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